Cirkwehrum Church
The Evangelical Reformed Cirkwehrum Church in the East Frisian Cirkwehrum , municipality of Hinte , was built in 1751 on a terp .
history
In the Middle Ages , Cirkwehrum belonged to the provost of Uttum in the diocese of Münster . An earlier Gothic church was probably built in the 15th century. It was demolished in 1751 and replaced with a new one. Since the small community could not cope financially with the new building on its own, the Prussian authorities were asked for permission to hold collections , especially among Reformed communities in the Netherlands. Today Cirkwehrum shares a parish with Uttum.
Building description
The new brick church was built as a simple hall church in the Baroque style. The four small windows on the south side have pointed arches , while the north side has no windows. There are two more windows on the east side.
In 1818 a bell tower was added to the west side of the church. It is connected to the church building in such a way that it is not noticeable at first glance as a separate building. On the north and south sides of the bell tower there are round-arched sound openings that can be closed from the inside with wooden shutters. The smaller bricks of the masonry indicate a renovation of the west wall in 1818.
The metal of the oldest bell, which originally hung in the church of the Sielmönken monastery , dates back to 1508. It was used in 1794 by the Lorraine bell founders Mammeus Fremy Heidefeld and Mammeus Fremy III for the manufacture of the current bell. On the steep gable roof there is a small roof turret with a small bell tower. Nothing is known about their origin.
Furnishing
The ceiling is closed by a wooden barrel vault with transverse spanning anchor beams. Gravestones found inside the church date from 1572, 1610 and 1612. The latter depicts the sisters Nona and Agundt in their costumes almost life-size. The gravestone of a preacher who died young was set into the floor behind the simple communion table. The box stalls made of wood are decorated with traljen grids. The wooden pulpit with hexagonal sound cover dates from 1751, the year the church was built, and is placed in the middle between the two east windows.
organ
Between 1877 and 1879 the Rohlfs brothers built the small organ that was to be the last new building for the family company. It has eight stops on two manuals and an attached pedal and is largely preserved. A characteristic of the Rohlfs late works is that they are designed without any aliquot registers or a mixture . The case is made in the neo-Romanesque style. The tin pipes in the prospectus had to be delivered in 1917 for armament purposes and were replaced in the same year by a lattice frame with painted pipe mock-ups. In 2012/13 Harm Dieder Kirschner restored the instrument and reconstructed the lost principal . The disposition is as follows:
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See also
Web links
- Website of the Cirkwehrum Church
- Genealogy forum: Cirkwehrum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Menno Smid : East Frisian Church History . Self-published, Pewsum 1974, p. 44 (Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike, vol. 6).
- ^ Hajo van Lengen : East Frisia: History and shape of a cultural landscape . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1995, p. 279.
- ^ Reformiert.de: Cirkwehrum ; viewed on February 26, 2020
- ^ A b Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide East Friesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz , Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 109 .
- ↑ Heinrich Otte : Glockenkunde . Weigel, Leipzig 1888, p. 188.
- ↑ East Frisian newspaper of 20 December 2012 ; Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ^ Reformiert.de: Cirkwehrum ; viewed on February 26, 2020
- ^ Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 88 .
- ↑ Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 , p. 473 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 14.7 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 18.2" E